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Pigs wallow in mud because it feels good to them. Pigs have no sweat glands in their thick skin to serve as a cooling system. Wallowing in mud helps pigs to keep cool on a hot day. The coating of mud also adds a protective layer against the sun and helps keep off biting insects.

Pigs have a reputation of being dirty and stupid because they wallow in mud. But they keep themselves cleaner than most other farm animals. Pigs have been shown to be the most intelligent of all hoofed animals. They can be taught to perform tricks and can even become pets.–Dick Rogers

A pig has no sweat glands in its skin. In hot weather it likes to bask in its wallow to cool and soothe its skin.

We are all familiar with the old expression “as dirty as a pig.”

It is true that pigs like to wallow in the mud, but pigs don’t take mud baths simply because they like to be dirty. A pig has now sweat glands in its skin. This means that its body cannot be cooled by perspiration. In hot weather, the pig wallows in the mud only to cool and soothe its skin.

Actually, the pig is not a dirty creature. It will keep itself as clean as most other farm animals it allowed, but many pigs are forced to live in unsanitary conditions.

A pig is not particular about what it eats, and finds nourishment in many kinds of food. In earlier days pigs were fed scraps and leftovers from the kitchen, which created fifth and offensive odors in the pig pen.

In modern, farming practices, pigs are not fed on garbage, but on carefully balanced diets. They are kept in more sanitary surroundings as well. – Dick Rogers

Paper wasps build their nests out of paper. The paper wasp makes its paper by chewing tiny pieces of wood and mixing the pulp with saliva in this mouth.

The wet paper paste is then patted, pulled and stretched to form rows of cells, like those of a bee’s honeycomb. When the pulp dries, it becomes paper—something like the paper your newspaper is made of.

Paper Wasp

Each cell in the paper wasp’s nest is a nursery in which a baby wasp will grow. Hornets and yellow jackets make paper nests, too.

The paper nests are sometimes hung from tree branches or stuck beneath the rafter of an old barn. They may also be built in the holes in the ground.

Not all wasps make paper nests. The carpenter wasp bores holes in trees or old posts. The mud wasp builds a nest of mud. The cuckoo wasp doesn’t build a nest. It lays its eggs in a mud wasp’s nest while the occupant is away. – Dick Rogers